Brown Gets Another
New Brown men’s basketball coach Jesse Agel has made it clear that owning his backyard will be a priority in recruiting. Not only has he targeted, and now landed, two local New England products, but all three members of his newly formed staff have roots in the region as well.
For any Ivy League school that wants to target New England, Northfield Mount Hermon is a good place to start. McCarthy becomes the sixth NMH product to commit to an Ivy League School in the last three years. That number will only increase as he is just the second member of the Hoggers class of 2009 to commit.
As for McCarthy, his decision ends what has been a tumultuous couple of years. Rewind not even two years ago and the southpaw forward was just starting to see his stock take off as schools from the highest levels of college basketball were beginning to show interest. But then McCarthy suffered a back injury that sidelined him for the better part of the calendar year. Unable to show his best basketball, and rarely able to even get on the court for the rest of his career at Buckingham, Browne, and Nichols, McCarthy made the decision to do a post-graduate year at NMH.
This summer the Massachusetts native split time between the Rhode Island Hawks and Expressions Elite AAU clubs and proved he was back to his old form. He was fantastic at the Super 16 Showcase where he dominated 7’5” center Ring Ayeul of New York Elite by pulling the opposing big man away from the basket with his shooting range and finding ways to score and rebound around the basket. Agel and Brown assistant T.J. Sorrentine were on hand for that performance and it didn’t take long for them to make McCarthy one of their top priorities.
With the tandem of Halpern and McCarthy already in the mix, Brown has an interior duo that should prove to be quite formidable in the Ivy League. Not only are they a talented pair, but they are very good friends on and off the floor (they even work out together during the summer). Between their individual talents and chemistry working together, Brown’s frontline looks to be in great shape for the next four years.